
Tallie Medel
Acting
Biography
Tallie Medel is an American actress, writer, dancer, choreographer, and comedienne, best known for her work in independent films. They graduated from Emerson College, Boston, MA, in 2008 with a degree in Acting and Theater Education, and is a co-founder of dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team alongside Sunita Mani and Eleanore Pienta.
Known For

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Everything Everywhere All at Once

The inventor of the world's greatest toy reflects on his obsession with a woman who hates him.
The Arbalest

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.
The Unspeakable Act

Chronicling the life of Lay'n Pipe, a 47 foot TopGun Cigarette speedboat, from its conception through the end of human civilization. It's not just a speedboat ride, it's a Miami adventure.
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Podcast giants join forces for one night in New York City, to create the "Lollapalooza of podcasts." Featuring live stage performances by Radiolab, Invisibilia, Reply All, The Truth, Lauren Lapkus and SNL's Bobby Moynihan. Plus music by horn quartet The Westerlies, dance by Cocoon Central Dance Team, cameos by Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig, original comedy videos, and more.
Cast Party

Twentysomething Brooklynites Mara and Jo have been close friends since middle school. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the increasingly unstable Jo has troubles that may be the result of substance abuse, or an even deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara tries to help.
Fourteen

A small town gorilla joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend.
Sylvio

Noel works at an indoor baseball facility with her father where her day-to-day existence is overshadowed by the curse of her family’s lineage: every family member must hit 100 baseballs everyday or the love of their life will die.
Indoor Baseball

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.
Stinking Heaven

Dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance lounges about, passes gas, and bursts into bizarre dance routines while navigating outer space interludes, doctor boners, and a '90s-style girl group meltdown.
Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

In present-day Texas, Maya and her on again, off again girlfriend Jules total their car after a night of backwoods raving and teen mischief. They're rescued from the wreckage by Freddy, an oil worker whose stoic facade crumbles as he comes to see himself, and his repressed desires, in Maya. As Jules recovers, Maya and Freddy develop a rapport that dulls the debilitating silence of their small-town lives. Together, they subtly encourage one another to chase after what they want the most (or at least figure out what that might be).
Jules of Light and Dark

Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.
The French Italian

A has-been New York rock-star teams up with a wannabe filmmaker to destroy hipster culture in New York... if they don't destroy each other first.
Abby Singer/Songwriter

A short "making of" documentary for the stand out hit "Marlon Brando" by the incomparable Alex Cameron
Marlon Brando

Alice and Bret's dog Harvie is dying, and he's ruining everything. What had been a bright little family is quickly getting consumed by clouds of self-doubt, suspicion and a disturbing amount of ground beef.
The Carnivores

The monotonous life of Cleo and Judy, a queer couple who run a kitschy love motel, is thrown into disarray when Cleo falls for a visiting dominatrix.
Romance Package for Two

A portrait of Sarah and Michael from two strangers who know nothing about the other, to two strangers who know everything about each other. At once hilarious and heartbreaking this short film attempts to show just an ounce of the ambiguity, joy, and heartbreak of youthful love.
I'm Nostalgic

A stop-motion documentary that asks men one of the crucial questions of our era: “What compels you to send pictures of your penis to non-consenting others?”
Dick Pics! (A Documentary)

Needing a sudden escape from the city, Robbie leaves Brooklyn to stay in the Hudson Valley with his aunt, who runs a home for pregnant teens. As the only man in the house, Robbie captures the attention of many of the girls, and when he strikes up a friendship with Nina, who is dealing with her own relationship troubles, tensions run high in the house.
Uncertain Terms

A young married couple tries to make a home out of a two room apartment. She's a dancer and needs a lot of space. He's a comedian and needs a lot of therapy. These things don't always fit so well. Behold love, despair, and fantasies of burning the place to the ground.